Ecoli Food Poisoning

For the past two days or so I have had food poisoning and it's not fun. I'll just say I'm not vomiting so you can guess whats happening.

I don't have to look far to know what the culprit was, I'm sure it was something I ate at the iftar. The environment wasn't exactly five stars.

I have been eating a little bit this afternoon as I am starved. I've lost five pounds since yesterday.

So it's back to net surfing and reading, which reminds me I need to post something to Book Corner.

Doc's Hollywood Cocktail

I know it already sounds delicious right? Chris has heard me call it this for years now and cringes every time she hears it and has probably already deleted this post when it arrived in her email.

Doc's Hollywood Cocktail is no cocktail at all but the supplements I take in the morning! Lately it is (1) aspirin (1) iron table (1) calcium tablet and (1) omega 3 fish oil tablet.

I know the debate rages on about the daily aspirin, does it help? I don't know but I think it can't hurt either!

The fish oil? I guess by the bottles suggestion you are supposed to take 2 to 3 a day. I try to remember to take one before dinner.

And the name? I coined it from something I saw on TV about Hollywood celebrities and the concoctions the take to stay young, the commenter called it the "Hollywood Cocktail"

Spectacles Update

I forgot to mention that I went back to the optometrist and picked up my glasses. Again they felt a little funny, in that my vision was just a little off. For the record I wear bifocals.

The salesman took a look how they sat on my face then pushed them down just a tad bit on my nose "How do you see now?", wouldn't you know it, it was the difference between night and day.
he made some further adjustments and gave them back to me. Still a tad bit funny but he said it would take awhile for my eyes to get adjusted to them and that seems to be the case.

I got a good deal as well around $158USD for line free, anti-glare bifocals on rimless metal frames. At least a solid $100USD more back home, probably more.

Just in case your wondering they call eyeglasses here spectacles.

Making a spectacle of my spectacles

I've been needing new glasses for awhile now. My eyes have been hurting and tearing while sitting at my desk looking at a computer screen all day and problems reading.

Step one find an optometrist and get my eyes checked. As luck would have it there was one right across the street at the shopping mall.

First I tried calling a multiple of phone numbers listed on their website, as is the norm around here this was a lesson in futility.

I walked across the street to the optometrist and inquired about an eye exam, I knew they sold sunglasses but wasn't sure if they performed eye exams but they did, for free. My favorite price!

The eye exam went easy enough, as expected my eye sight had become a little worse.

I picked out some stylish new frames, NOT! Picked out some frames much like my old ones. I was told I could pick them up in 3 days.

The big day came and I picked up my glasses. It was a little weird trying to get used to them but I figured in time I would.

No more than 2 hours or so into wearing my new glasses that my eye started to hurt very bad and started tearing up. Took off the glasses, my eyes didn't hurt.

I went back to the optometrist and he gave my another eye exam, the results were pretty much the same as my previous exam. He is going to send the glasses back for some additional adjustment. In his opinion I just need to give the glasses some time. I'm not sure about this, we'll see. Get it, we'll see : )

Feeling Better

So I'm feeling much better after yesterdays food poisoning incident. Still irked that the hospital really did nothing for me. In fact they gave me a blood pressure test and I looked at the numbers and thought that they looked high, the doctor asked me if I had high blood pressure and I said no, that was that, nothing else. So I look at the numbers this morning and they were scary high! Any good doctor would have told me to get it checked out! Now I'm more scared of my blood pressure than any food poisoning.

I am going to watch what I eat, less sodium, etc. I'm going to see about seeing a REAL doctor about what can be done, or even if I have it all.